Ann Hood Quotes

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

I love to fly so much.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

As a kid, I wanted to do so many different things; I saw my aunt as an air hostess, and then I wanted to be an air hostess. I found it very glamorous, but when I flew for the first time in my life, and I saw how air hostesses have to slog and how they have to work with everybody going 'ting-ting' and how they have to keep on running up and down.

The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Jet Blue is my preferred airline. I love the cleanliness, technology, and the staff is always wonderful.